You should look in to a memetic understanding of how civilizations structure. It might swing that pendulum back to hope for the masses, but with a more stable reasoning then you had last time. You may have had hope before because of naivety, but you may gain it back on the basis of wisdom. Keep going, there’s layers to this onion, you’ve already experienced that. Don’t think you got to the core just yet.
If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.
Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security--and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.
For the facts of the matter are that this nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire through theft, bribery or espionage; that details of this nation's covert preparations to counter the enemy's covert operations have been available to every newspaper reader, friend and foe alike; that the size, the strength, the location and the nature of our forces and weapons, and our plans and strategy for their use, have all been pinpointed in the press and other news media to a degree sufficient to satisfy any foreign power; and that, in at least in one case, the publication of details concerning a secret mechanism whereby satellites were followed required its alteration at the expense of considerable time and money.
The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.
The question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.
On many earlier occasions, I have said--and your newspapers have constantly said--that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good.
-JFK….who’s humble approach was more clear then his?
Your right scarcity without demand means, zero value.
Is it valuable to you, to be forced, naked, walk across political borders and take your net wealth with you in your head and not need a 3rd party custodial service to promise your private property to you when you arrive wherever your going? Like actual private property, that’s divisible, fixed or measurable low scarcity, highly portable, authentic proof, and durable?
Cool. Cause nothing else is that besides BTC. The most autonomous, closest to sovereign, private property, was invented when BTC was invented.
@aak1880@travelingflying You’re delusional, I wish you could be me for a second to really feel, how true this is. Literally not a murmur of thought if you’re a waitress at Applebees or whatever. It’s not a variable at all. Like not even .01%
@HowieCombrink@IanCarrollShow@DavidBCollum Only one thing about this script that tickles me wrong. The new system has to be based on voluntary choice. No mandates.
Only thing that is “mandated” is “you can’t steal people’s private property”
It’s so sad and describes where we are at in this psy-op, that people think these are options. Either… price controls aka “pulling monetary levers” or more debt….
@IanCarrollShow said it in these comments, but…End The Fed. Let people flock to a 1:1 ratio store of value and actual ownership. Pump the schools with Austrian economics. Teach everyone about merit, and how value is actually generated. To reverse the psy-op. And I would just switch Gold out for Bitcoin (or plug your favorite hard asset it) and create 2nd layer tethered 1:1 to BTC for transactions/settlements.
“There’s 2 ways everyone will come to Bitcoin. Pain or wonder.”
Most of the Wonders is everyone really orange pilled right now (that’s not even everyone that owns BTC and definitely not people who have “exposer” to Bitcoin, they don’t even control/own their own UTXO). It very well may be, for the vast majority…through pain.
@HowieCombrink@IanCarrollShow@DavidBCollum I have an idea. Everyone just bank with bitcoin (no1 owns the protocol), and use peer to peer rails to replace the payments/settlements. Boom.